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Questionnaire to help with Standard Works’ refurbishment (inc chance to win £25 gift voucher)

Glasshouse College is breathing life back into a derelict building in the Jewellery Quarter. The Standard Works in Vittoria Street, built in 1879 and grade II listed, has stood empty for the last two decades. The charity is setting up a specialist further education college, providing practical skills therapeutic education for young people aged 16-25…

Fancy getting involved in the future of the Jewellery Quarter?

The Jewellery Quarter is entering an exciting phase and you can play a part in it. The Localism Act of Parliament (stay with us) gives communities the power to set the rules for planning & development in their area by creating a NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN. It means that old rules can be shaken up, new rules…

Show us your assets!

What would you save in the Jewellery Quarter for the community? The Post Office? The Lord Clifden? The cemeteries? Under new Localism laws the local community can apply to designate a building or piece of land as an ‘Asset of Community Value’. This is where you come in – to help us register them with…

Golden Square back on track?

At long last, a planning application has been lodged for a redesigned Golden Square, outside the Big Peg and Rose Villa Tavern. The application number is 2013/06142/PA Thankfully at first glance it looks like the changes are minimal and presumably done to help stick to a budget. We would like to see more detail on the…

Who Lives in a House Like This? It’s over to you…

The Jewellery Quarter is a housing estate. Well, it was when it was first developed, but then shiny precious things started to be made in the yards of those houses and Hockley changed forever. It’s over 100 years since new houses were built in the Jewellery Quarter. Now we have a few being built behind…

Golden Square advance works: tree felling on Sun 7 April

The Golden Square will be a new public square located in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter, next to the Chamberlain Clock Tower and the Big Peg office building. Land in front of the Big Peg on the corner of Waterstone Lane and Vyse Street will become home to a new square, which the council…

Who Cares For the Jewellery Quarter?

Legge Lane Dereliction Sun 3rd March 2013

Well, we do for a start. But it appears that some of its owners don’t. Empty buildings are the curse of the JQ and dilapidated ones are the boil on the witch’s nose. The Legge Lane area is probably the most blighted part of the JQ and some its landowners don’t seem to be bothered. …

The All-New Birmingham Assay Office

For some time the Assay Office, currently located on Newhall St, has been looking for a new home to enable it to expand and diversify. Thankfully it has found a site in the Jewellery Quarter and now a planning application has been lodged with Birmingham City Council. The site fronts Icknield St(the Middleway ringroad) and…

We need a cunning plan…

On Wednesday I attended a ‘scoping day’ hosted by MADE at Newhall Square and involving the Prince’s Foundation, local groups and (mainly creative) businesses. The question we discussed was: ‘What does the JQ need to ensure a desirable, sustainable future that conserves the essential nature of the JQ?’ Actually that’s my interpretation of what the…